Category Archives: Recollections

Meeting the Iron Lady in Thailand on a Trip

The connections with someone on a trip that extended to this day, translated… In the summer, many years ago, I’d won a raffle, to Thailand, free of charge, and got acquainted with Liu who was in the same tour group, … Continue reading

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Never Ending Nights…

This is, what will be, falling before YOU in life from here on out, never ending nights, and, you KNOW how all those monsters only comes out from the closets at night, right??? Yeah, uh-huh. Never ending nights, that is, … Continue reading

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Two Separate Mindsets in Dementia, from the Caretakers’ Journal

The characters of these two elderly women’s personalities were, flipped, upside down by dementia, translated… When my mother-in-law was eighty-three, she was diagnosed as having vascular dementia, and my husband and I took over the caretaking of her, she’d, changed … Continue reading

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Attention!

Habits of your younger years, that’ll keep on, following you, even IF you’d, grown too old, something that’s interesting to see here, translated… After I’d served my military service terms, I’d had the mindset of giving back to the community, … Continue reading

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The Drawing Boxes

The memories of her childhood years, sharing those nights with her own father, translated… Dad patted the drawing box, asked curiously, “What is this?”, like he’d, never walked through those years. I said, “Do you not remember the paper cards … Continue reading

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Midnight Dates with Mom

To keep one’s mind active, to delay the onset of aging process of the mind, and this, became a sort of a habit, a hobby of the elderly woman, translated… After the surgeries, mom became, weakened, couldn’t travel abroad with … Continue reading

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Using the Restrooms as a Makeshift Darkroom

The experiencing of making that makeshift dark room must’ve been very interesting for him! Translated… After he’d graduated from high school, he was already, the photography news reporter for a paper, so, he’d needed to go to the night department … Continue reading

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When You’d Gone Missing…

You’d let go of my hand, and, became, missing, I’d, tried to find you, everywhere, but, I was, totally, unsuccessful in my pursuits of finding you. When you’d gone missing, that was, over five years ago, and, as each and … Continue reading

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The Thrills in the Bathrooms

Remembering those old days, translated… I’d gone to military school from back when, all our time in the schools, were, closely watched over by the school officials, no matter what we do, at what time, there’s, no chance of fouling … Continue reading

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I’d Become the Top Saleswoman of the Day

Giving these secondhand items, a brand new life! That was, what this woman managed to do, putting things to good use, and, it’d, impressed her daughter, translated… From before when I lived and worked in Japan, I’d often gone to … Continue reading

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